26 September 2017
Rocket Lab to fly Planet and Spire satellites on second test flight
...satellites for Planet and two Lemur-2 satellites from Spire for weather mapping and ship traffic tracking. The ... test flight attempt, we’re incredibly excited about carrying Planet and Spire payloads on Electron. The data these companies gather has an...
March 2021
iPhone moment for the Earth observation industry
... (Hawkeye360, Kleos, Unseenlabs) to using radio occultation signals from navigation satellites to better understand our weather (Spire, GeoOptics). We can also keep track of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGSat, Bluefield, MethaneSat), keep an eye on the...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
...NASA facility, the world was rapidly changing. Wingo Wong, a Spire engineer, works on satellite assembly at the company’s Glasgow office.... technology and other industries. Both SpaceX’s rockets and Spire CubeSats run on Linux - which is the same ...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... appetite. In fact, two more SPACs were announced in March - another Seraphim portfolio company, Spire, and small rocket launcher, Rocketlab. Spire is a space based SAAS business, leveraging data from its smallsat constellation to track ships, planes...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... is the “three unit” (3U) Planet Labs’ imaging CubeSat for Earth Observation data products, and more recently Spire, which plans to offer maritime location-based and weather data product services from its own CubeSat...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
...-up such as Planet Labs, Skybox Imaging, Generation Orbit or NewSpace Entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk (Space X), Peter Platzer (Spire) or Craig Clark (Clyde Space) have managed to open up a NewSpace Age. References 1 http://nanoracks.com/category...
